Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Surrounding him, warships crossed the sky, ceaselessly shuttling back and forth, cleaning up the battlefield, annihilating all enemies who refused to surrender.

Several days later, the battlefield gradually quieted down.

”Commander,”

Ouyang Hui saluted with a spirited expression, ”In this battle, our forces achieved a great victory, capturing 2.07 million Xuanwu Heavenly Palace cultivators and fully controlling the Geomagnetic Realm. We are now remodeling the political ecology of the Geomagnetic Realm according to our plan, gaining control over every corner.”

”The Xianmen Sect’s second-line garrison corps is gathering. They will replace us in these tedious tasks and be stationed here.”

”The core disciples of the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace have stringent and formidable Spirit Soul Restrictions. Once captured, the restrictions detonate immediately, leaving no captives.”

”Currently, there is an issue,”

Ouyang Hui said somewhat embarrassingly, ”The battlefield was too chaotic at the time, and the resistance in various places was very fierce, so... we let the Wood King and the Shadow King escape, and we haven’t found them to this day.”

”How was it handled in the past?”

Jiang Ding asked as he opened his eyes from his cultivation.

”Leave a detachment of the Air-Space Group’s army to search within the realm. It should take a few years, but they can probably be found and eliminated.”

”In very rare cases, it can take up to more than a decade.”

Ouyang lowered her head, somewhat ashamed.

She always felt the need to cling to a stronger power to survive.

In the Immortal Sects, probably no cultivator would dare to make so many requests in front of a Taoist disciple?

”No need for such trouble.”

Jiang Ding took out a gold Talisman Sword Embryo; Sword Qi spewed from between his fingers as he etched one intricate pattern after another on it. The sharp aura was so chilling that it even made Nascent Soul Monks shiver.

Gradually, the sharp edge was concealed, forming an ordinary-looking Sword Talisman.

”Just find someone to follow the guidance of the Sword Talisman and go to execute them,” Jiang Ding said.

He passed two Sword Talismans to Ouyang Hui.

It was not a matter of foresight. The moment the Taoist disciples and Ten Kings of the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace entered the range of his Divine Sense, they were already tagged by his Sword Intent, an almost instinctual act that left none overlooked.

However, after slaying Zhong Yuanzi, he found the so-called Ten Kings quite dull and had little desire to move.

”Yes, sir!”

Ouyang Hui saluted, somewhat stiffly.

Once again, she realized the terrifying individual combat power of an Immortal Sect disciple. Even in front of such a disciple, the Air-Space Group’s army was fragile, with huge shortcomings in mobility, concealment, and acuity.

Against Immortal Sect disciples, the Army had a specific vulnerability.

If you fight, you can’t win.

If you run, you can’t escape.

It was simply disheartening!

After Ouyang Hui left, very few people came to disturb Jiang Ding.

An Siyan and Jin Lingfeng were busy. It was their first time commanding the Air-Space Group’s army. For the two of them, it was a rare opportunity. They were busy learning and practicing, checking their work against what they learned in textbooks. Their understanding of the Immortal Path was rapidly advancing, and they had no time for anything else.

Jiang Ding scanned the surroundings and set up a Concealment Formation.

Then,

he revealed his true self.

”Ahhh!!! Ohhh!!!”

”Now, it’s time to open the treasure chest!”

”I’m about to get rich!”

Jiang Ding’s serious expression collapsed as he shouted excitedly, jumping up and eagerly taking out a chessboard of black and white hues, along with a small hill about the size of a palm, both of which belonged to Zhong Yuanzi.

The chessboard had already been disinfected by the Xianmen Sect’s Starry Sky Troops, confirming no remnants of Refining the Void Level Power were left.

”Hmm, no need to rush,”

Jiang Ding thought for a moment and first took out the Life Treasures and Storage Treasures of King Jia, Fire King, and Rain Queen, scanning them carefully with his Divine Sense and Sword Intent.

”Three damaged Life Treasures can be refined into raw materials, equivalent to three top-tier God-transforming Level Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures, which can be used for the future refining of the Super Mothership.”

”It seems that the Super Air-Space Mothership requires the Air-Space Battleship to be refined to its peak, and then it will return to the factory to incorporate a large amount of God-transforming Level Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures for an upgrade. The requirements for the Ship Spirit are very high, akin to refining a Starry Sky Iron Fortress, which is very difficult.”

”Even the Immortal Sects often encounter failed upgrades and scrapped Air-Space Motherships.”

”Commander, I’m very strong. I won’t fail,”

Ship Spirit Cloud Day interrupted.

”Don’t speak, these are my lines.”

Jiang Ding rolled his eyes.

”Oh, okay, Commander.”

Ship Spirit Cloud Day cocked her head, thought for a moment, and said, ”So what do I say? ’Steel, never extinguished.’ Can I say that? I saw it in a movie.”

”You watch movies too?”

”Isn’t that slacking off?”

Jiang Ding exclaimed in surprise.

”Commander!!”

”According to the ’Artificial Intelligence Rights Act,’ ship spirits also have certain human rights; ship spirits have human rights, too.”

Ship Spirit Cloud Day’s face darkened: ”You heartless capitalist, I also have time off, you know. And I have quite a few ship spirit friends.”

”Yun Gong Immortal’s ship spirit is like an older sister, a senior; she taught me a lot. Sun Extinguisher Heavenly Monarch’s ship spirit is an old rascal who always bugs me—I don’t like him. Senior Yuan’s ship spirit is an old man with a white beard; whenever I tattle, Sun Extinguisher Heavenly Monarch’s ship spirit gets beaten up severely, not daring to leave home for years...”

A girl over a meter tall, dressed in the Air-Space Army general’s ceremonial uniform, with mechanical wings on her back and carrying two naval guns, counted on her fingers, introducing each one to Jiang Ding.

”Uhh...”

Jiang Ding was somewhat stunned.

”Alright, my bad.”

”Commander, simply admitting a mistake isn’t enough.”

The tiny general flew up in front of Jiang Ding, her mechanical wings and electromagnetic main gun barrels swaying slightly, and she said solemnly, ”Military discipline is strict, no jokes in the army; if you make a mistake, you must be punished!”

”Uhh...”

”So what should we do? Are you going to beat me up?”

”No need for that.”

Cloud Day flew into King Jia’s storage bag and rummaged through it before finally lifting a turtle shell as huge as a little mountain, flying excitedly beneath it, ”Commander, can I have this as compensation?”

It was King Jia’s life spirit beast shell, containing part of the Divine Beast Xuanwu’s bloodline.

”Sure, it’s yours.”

Jiang Ding said generously, ”I’m quite wealthy, want to pick something else?”

”Really?”

”Then I won’t be polite!!”

Cloud Day’s face broke into a delighted smile as she dived again, grabbing King Jia’s blood-colored giant axe, a Divinity Transformation level tool embryo, as well as King Jia’s metallic body which was as huge as a giant, along with many more bits and pieces. Like a hard-working little bee, she tossed each item one by one into the Super Warship Great Sun’s engine furnace.

”Commander, Xuanwu bloodline is quite a treasure.”

Her small hands moved back and forth, busily non-stop, as she explained, ”The metal refined from this bloodline is called Xuanwu Gold, and it has an extremely strong transmission and amplification effect on energy conduction, making it one of the top spirit metals. I can use it to enhance the electromagnetic acceleration ability of the Magnetic Cloud Splitting Star Cannon.”

”And this Divinity Transformation level tool embryo, I can slowly digest it to strengthen the ship’s body...”

”Oh right, after seizing Geomagnetic Realm, the prices of Immortal Sect’s electromagnetic system main guns and treasures will drop, possibly by ten to twenty percent, but you must not cut my annual refining funds...”

She rattled off like a machine gun.

”Rest easy,”

”A super-rich tycoon wouldn’t do that.”

Jiang Ding casually agreed, his Divine Sense busy categorizing and valuing various heavenly materials and earthly treasures, Nascent Treasures and captives from King Jia, Fire King, and Rain Queen’s storage bags.

”Excluding the three non-sale Divinity Transformation level tool embryos, the total is...”

”Three hundred and seventy-two billion low-grade spirit stones!”

Jiang Ding’s spirits lifted, gaining a clearer understanding of Xuanwu Heavenly Palace’s wealth.

And this was just the wealth carried by the three kings—such a colossal amount. It was hard to imagine how much their true assets like cave mansions, spirit fields, and spiritual medicine gardens, which constituted the larger portion of their wealth, amounted to.

Just one King Jia was probably much wealthier than any Nascent Soul cultivator of the Immortal Sects.

”Next, the main event...”

”Zhong Yuanzi, don’t disappoint me.”

Jiang Ding took a deep breath and reverently held up a storage treasure shaped like a small mountain, ”The hope to pay off the Immortal Sect’s loan in one go is right in front of me!”

His Divine Sense and Sword Intent surged rudely into it.